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8/12/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“Gratitude is the tuning device to the greater flow in this Universe and when we are looking for what’s missing or what’s wrong we miss the great opportunities that are available to every single one of us.”

~ Mary Morrissey

“How does this show up in my life?” you might ask. If you step back and start noticing how you’re feeling about things in general, would you say you have a predominance of thoughts of annoyances, drudgery, shame, apathy, anger, or other negative emotions? Or would you say happiness, appreciation, positive anticipation, gratitude, or other positive emotions are predominant?

Learning to recognize the difference between the positive and negative thoughts and the emotional states they generate is important, my friend. Our emotional states are the energetic signals we’re emitting and the Universe is responding to. Are you aware of what you’re asking for?

And let me point out the difference between appreciation and gratitude. While they are both very positive energetic states there are two important yet subtle differences. First, there’s an element of humility that comes with not taking Life for granted, knowing that Life as we know it is, in and of itself, a gift for which we should all be grateful. And second, if you understood that the very fact that you have a desire means the Universe is already at work orchestrating its delivery, wouldn’t you be grateful? Trust this, my friend, deep down in your core. All comes in due time.

So, are you ready for it? If your answer is yes, your gratitude will usher it in.

8/11/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“The only people I am aware of who don’t have troubles are gathered in peaceful, little neighborhoods. There is never a care, never a moment of stress and never an obstacle to ruin a day. All is calm. All is serene. Most towns have at least one such worry-free zone. We call them cemeteries.”

~ Steve Goodier

Life isn’t meant to be easy, my friend. Where’s the growth when all goes exactly as you want and expect it to?

Embrace your challenges. They’re always gifts in disguise. Just trust. The gift will become clear in time.

8/10/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“To relate with others compassionately is a challenge. Really communicating from the heart and being there for someone else — our child, spouse, parent, client, patient, or the homeless woman on the street — means not shutting down on that person, which means, first of all, not shutting down on ourselves to feel what we feel and not pushing it away. It means accepting every aspect of ourselves, even the parts we don’t like. To do this requires openness, which in Buddhism is sometimes called emptiness–not fixating or holding on to anything.”

~ Pema Chodron

What you won’t do for yourself, my friend, you can’t do for another. The connection has to start from home, from the heart, the only place where you can truly feel and experience emotions — yours and others’.

Your heart knows compassion. It’s knows love and patience and forgiveness. Your heart is the place where all healing begins.

Be there, my friend, in your heart, and feel it open.

8/9/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.”

~ Maya Angelou

“Today I am blessed.”

Say it, my friend: “Today I am blessed.”

Make it your mantra and repeat it over and over. No matter what’s happening just think and say and feel, “Today I am blessed.”

Own it, my friend, “Today I am blessed.”

8/8/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”

~ Pope John XXIII

You get to choose what you focus your attention on. You can focus on good stuff or bad stuff, your future or your past, your desires or your fears. And there’s a dramatic difference, my friend, in the results you’ll experience from these simple choices.

Whatever you focus your attention on you are feeding your power to. And whatever you feed grows bigger, right?

Start noticing how some choices make you come alive with excitement while others cause you to wither. And then remember that you get to choose. Don’t you want to feel life flowing through you?

You deserve to feel good, my friend. Give yourself the gift of having something to aspire to!

8/6/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.”

~ David G. Allen

Have you ever noticed how we humans tend to get locked into a particular way that something should happen? We come up with a logical sequence of events and decide that’s how it must be. We lose sight of the fact that there are countless other ways it could unfold and then panic and control issues flare up when things don’t go as planned.

Take a deep breath and relax, my friend. Panic and the need to control only arise when we don’t have faith. What if it could be even easier than you’d imagined? Why not open to that possibility? What about preparing to be pleasantly surprised?

It’s so nice when we can tap into that centered, grounded space where we simply allow life to unfold with ease and grace.

8/5/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“Because I was more often happy for other people, I got to spend more time being happy. And as I saw more light in everybody else, I seemed to have more myself.”

~ Victoria Moran, Lit From Within

Happiness is contagious, my friend. Ever noticed? When you’re around someone who’s happy, smiling, vibrant, you can’t help but start feeling good yourself.

Unless you’re bothered about something, that is. Are you letting something get the better of you? If so, then maybe it’s time to start appreciating all the good things going on around you, even if they’re not your own successes. If it can happen to someone else, it can happen to you — if you’ll let it.

It’s always your choice whether you focus on the positives or the negatives. And it’s worth it to take heed, my friend. The end result is like the difference between night and day.

8/3/2021: Daily Dose of Inspiration

“Man often suffers loss through lack of appreciation.”

~ Florence Scovel Shinn

Don’t let this be you, my friend. Look around you. There is so much to appreciate.

Heck, you have a roof over your head, water to drink, food to eat and clothes to wear. And you have access to the internet! Right? Take that in for a moment. Have you noticed how simply appreciating that — that your most basic needs are met — has changed how you feel?

The more you appreciate, the more your heart opens and that brings more to appreciate your way. But you’d better know that this snowball effect works either way.

So you get to choose, my friend, will your day be filled with appreciation or will you be disgruntled?

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